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my time at Google has made me hate GCL so much.
1: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/master/doc/tutorial/basi...
Seems like an interesting language, but I'm very disappointed that my first attempt to view example code took 5 clicks. The most important part of any programming language website is a short example snippet: put it above the fold on the front page!
What i want to see, is a company which will provide as a service, basically devops deployment, monitoring and provisioning regardless of the cloud provider.
Such that i can say “deploy this” and it will eval, track and monitor the cost of the deployment across aws, azure, gcp, etc and i can click controls to see/kil/scale wherever...
Thus, i dont care about cloud provider deployment language, etc...
Here is an interesting example showing what it looks like: https://github.com/cuelang/cue/blob/e5d8d09b3ba2e4f48c84a3b5... I used the following command on the cloned repository to find it[1]: find . -iname '*.cue' | xargs ls -l | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f5,9 | sort -n [1] Note that 'find' has a '-printf' option which could have been used to simplify this one-liner.
The post title is misleading. This is a more of 20% project, not an officially Google supported one.
The tl;dr is buried deep in the docs > CUE is an extension of JSON. This improves familiarity and makes it easy to get going quickly. > In its simplest use case, CUE can substitute for a more pleasant way to write JSON.
So it’s a google branded yaml? Let’s raise a glass to our blue eyed comrades who’ll adopt this fully, only for google to decide in 2-3 years to completely and aggressively kill it again for no apparent reason.
With that as the worst case scenario, it's more than worth the try.